Nathan Ford was born at Morristown, N.J. in 1763. In 1779-80 he served with the continental armies, discharging his duties as assistant deputy quarter master general. In 1794-95 he was sent by land speculators to explore the northern part of the state and to examine and report upon several islands near Kingston being considered for purchase. During the War of 1812, he served as an agent for Samuel Ogden at Odgensburg, New York.
Henry Gildersleeve (1776-1851), expert shipwright, came to Bath to participate in the construction of the S.S. Frontenac which commenced in 1815. The S.S. Frontenac was the first stemaboat to operate on the Great Lakes. In 1818 he participated in the construction of the "Queen Charlotte" after which he moved to Kingston. He continued in the shipbuilding trade while also becoming owner and operator of steamboats on Lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte. The family continued in this business for nearly 100 years entering the steamship merger of 1913. Henry Herchmer Gildersleeve, grandson, continued in active steamboat operation service as manager of Northern Navigation Company until 1930, dying at Ottawa in 1933. His father, Charles Fuller Gildersleeve (1833-1906) had also served for many years as General Manager of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company. Four-time magistrate Overton Gildersleeve (1825-1864) served as the mayor of Kingston in 1855, 1856, and 1861-62.
John MacLeod Gill (1848-1921) and his brother James Gill, owned and operated James Smart Manufacturing in Brockville, producers of hardware, tools, heaters etc. He and his wife Mary Catherine Margaret Purkis Gill had three daughters, Anne, Bessie, and Mary Roberta and a son, Robert. In 1913 Mary Roberta married Rev. Norman MacLeod, Presbyterian minister and moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Brockville.
The Grass family were among the founding Loyalist families in Kingston.
The Landon family lived in the township of Lansdown, County of Leeds, District of Johnstown in the province of Upper Canada. Both Joseph and Abner Landon served as Town Clerks for a number of years.
The Macaulay family came to Kingston, Upper Canada from Ireland in the late eighteenth century, and were involved in the civil service and the Church. Robert Macaulay (1744-1800) came to America from Ireland and took part in the Revolutionary War before moving to Upper Canada to work as a trader. John Macaulay (1792-1857) was a civil servant in Kingston, Ontario during the early nineteenth century. The Rev. William Macaulay (1794-1874), was a minister in Cobourg and Picton, Ontario during the nineteenth century.
Daniel McGuin (sometimes McGwin, McGuinn or McQuinn) had been a farmer, storekeeper, and potash manufacturer near Newboro, in Ulster County, New York. He was commissioned in Colonel Edmund Fanning's Associated Refugees or King's American Regiment. A man of this name was a captain in the King's Royal Regiment of New York. McGuin was afterwards appointed a captain of the Associated Loyalists. On November 3, 1783, he was at Sorel and petitioned fro relief or employment. McGuin was one of the first innkeepers in Kingston. He was also a land commissioner in 1788.
John McIntyre, QC, was a barrister and solicitor in Kingston, Ontario. He and Donald M. McIntyre were partners of McIntyre and M'Intyre. John died in 1916.